LEE RODGERSSUBSTANCES HITTING THE FAN ...
MORE DEMOCRATS DECLINE PARTY POW-WOW ...
WHAT IF DOCTORS WALK AWAY FROM OBAMACARE?
MORE DEMOCRATS DECLINE PARTY POW-WOW ...
WHAT IF DOCTORS WALK AWAY FROM OBAMACARE?
Admit it, Democrats. Obama's claim of "executive privilege" to shield his racist Attorney General Holder fairly screams "cover-up!"
Nixon redux: "What did the president know and when did he know it?"
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It's the eternal question for which liberals have no answer. It's wrecked Greece, has several other European nations on the brink of economic collapse and is digging America's grave even now. It is this:
What do liberals do when they run out of other people's money to spend?
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Liberal media talking heads, cornered in trying to support Obama, try to pretend it's Congress -- more specifically, only the House of Representatives -- that is his opponent in November. Now, even that pathetic lie is looking futile because a Gallup Confidence in Institutions Survey finds that television news has fallen to a 21 percent approval rating among the public, a record low.
It appears that a large slice of the public has finally figured out the deceitful SOBs.
Perhaps Miss Information Andrea Mitchell would like to take a bow for the whole sorry bunch.
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The trend ...
U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, facing a tough re-election campaign in the often-bellwether state of Missouri, will not be attending the Democratic convention in August. Another Democrat finding that too close an association with Obama is poison.
Democrat Congressman John Barrow of Georgia has also announced that he will also skip the convention.
And the beat goes on ...
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See if the Big Media take note of this: Obama referred to the NBA champion Miami team as the "HeatS."
The same Hahvuhd man who referred to the U.S. Marine Corps as "the corpse."
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Burt Prelutsky takes a shot at Obama's anti-capitalism campaign against Romney ...
"Obama is so desperate that he is running a TV ad that attempts to make out Bain Capital’s Mitt Romney to be the mustachioed villain in an old-fashioned melodrama, tossing widows, orphans and a few disgruntled steelworkers, out into the snow. The fact that Bain Capital, not having been either a major bundler for Obama’s campaigns or the UAW, couldn’t count on being bailed out with taxpayer dollars the way that Solyndra, GM and Chrysler were, bears out the rewards and pitfalls of the capitalist system.
"Only the lamebrains on the Left would try to make a case against an honest businessman by pointing out that he occasionally suffered a setback. Because the Left consists mainly of academics, state and federal bureaucrats, sluggards, media leeches and college kids, they have no actual concept of how the private sector works."
Of course, the hypocrisy of Obama's "outsourcing" charges vs. Romney becomes obvious when it's revealed that his own campaign is using foreign-based companies to provide some of the services for its operations.
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The irony ... As my friend (although we don't always agree) columnist Debra Saunders points out that, while Obama does nothing to or about self-proclaimed "sanctuary cities" like San Francisco that flout immigration laws, he attacks Arizona, which tries to enforce them. Does not even the dumbest Democrat see a problem with that?
Even people who agree with Obama's position on illegal immigration would do well to consider the long-term potential in allowing a president -- eventually one they dislike -- to simply ignore or violate laws with which he disagrees. But most won't. If they weren't that stupid or hypocritical, they wouldn't be Democrats.
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Many Republicans are disappointed that Mitt Romney didn't come out fighting against Obama on immigration law, but he has undoubtedly calculated that he'd better focus on the single most important issue to most people, the economy, rather than get sidetracked into other issues, which Obama clearly wants. On the first Wednesday in November, Romney -- and we -- will learn if his calculation was correct.
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When liberal commentators/columnists posit that a contempt-of-congress vote against Attorney General Eric Holder would be a political setback for Republicans, you have to know they expect the exact opposite.
If the Congressional Republicans DON'T keep the heat on Holder, they might well worry that their own political base will figure "What's the use?" and stay home in November.
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"He may be a crook, but he's our crook." Congressman Charles Rangel was re-elected by his constituents, despite ethics charges.
Senator Orrin Hatch will also return for another term, since he won his Utah primary.
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Ol' Jimmuh Cahtuh just can't help himself. The failed and disgraceful former president has now made it a clean sweep of bitterness toward every successor with his attacks on Obama over the use of drones to kill terrorists. Violates their "human rights," dont'cha know ...
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Reminder of a basic fact that gets lost in the Obamacare debate ...
Doctors HATE it. And you can't force people to be -- or become -- doctors. Most people with the smarts to master the skills are also smart enough to do other things for a living without the encumbrances and interference of a bunch of politicized, know-it-all government burocrats.
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Wes picked this up this piece of investment advice from Fox Biznews ...
"US government bonds are like the best horse in a glue factory. And you know what happens to the horses there."
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Being a left-wing propaganda mill eventually exacts a price. CNN's ratings have hit their lowest point in 21 years.
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The forthcoming (in two years) four-team playoff system to determine a college football championship won't be perfect, but it'll become a great improvement over the BCS system. I doubt, however, that anyone would've beaten the 'bama juggernaut of this past season.
Long range prediction for this year's Final Four: USC, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arkansas. Warning: This prediction is not to be saved for discussion later if it doesn't materialize. Burn it immediately.
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Jay Leno --
"Gas prices are expected to drop to around $3 a gallon by this fall. The price drop is the result of a complicated system. It's called the election."
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Memo to the morning twit on CNN ...
Airline dispatchers, who do the flight planning, do not work for the FAA. They work for the individual airlines.
Most airline personnel cringe when the Big Media approach any aviation story because they expect it to be distorted by the vast ignorance of the reporters. They're almost invariably correct in that expectation.
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“If you’re conservative in Hollywood, you’re on a list of people who need to be put in their place. If you’re Woody Allen, you do what you want. If you’re Spike Lee, you can go ahead and tweet out the address of the guy who the New Black Panthers put a bounty on and there’s no repercussions, because Hollywood will decide who’s guilty and who’s not guilty. Now, if Tom Selleck tweeted out the address of a black guy who the new Klan had put a bounty on, there’d be repercussions against Tom Selleck. That much I can promise you.
“They (Hollywood liberals) all pretend like they’re part of the 99 percent, but they’re not; they’re part of the 1 percent. They’re all incorporated, they all have tax attorneys, believe me.” -- Comedian Adam Carolla, who grew up poor and is one of the few outspoken conservatives in Hollywood, to The Daily Caller.
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The indispensable Thomas Sowell offers a political dictionary that will be useful as November approaches ...
One of the most versatile terms in the political vocabulary is "fairness." Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
"Racism" is another term we can expect to hear a lot this election year, especially if the public opinion polls are going against President Barack Obama.
A more positive term that is likely to be heard a lot, during election years especially, is "compassion." But what does it mean concretely? More often than not, in practice it means a willingness to spend the taxpayers' money in ways that will increase the spender's chances of getting reelected.
If you are skeptical -- or, worse yet, critical -- of this practice, then you qualify for a different political label: "mean-spirited." A related political label is "greedy."
A political term that had me baffled for a long time was "the hungry." Eventually, over the years, it finally dawned on me. People who make no provision to feed themselves, but expect others to provide food for them, are those whom politicians and the media refer to as "the hungry." Those who meet this definition may have money for alcohol, drugs or even various electronic devices. But, if they look to voluntary donations, or money taken from the taxpayers, to provide them with something to eat, then they are "the hungry." -- More at Townhall.com
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Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and new president of Egypt says he will be a "leader for all Egyptians."
Bull(bleep)!
This Sharia-law-loving bunch of Muslim fanatics who want to return to the tenth century are trying to sell this pap to the gullible in Egypt and especially to the Muslim-sympathizer in the White House in an effort to tap the wallets of American taxpayers. To expect otherwise is silly.
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One of the largest -- and ever-growing -- causes of discontent in society is a widespread inability to distinguish between needs and wants, e.g., "I NEED food ... I WANT lobster."
You will find that inability at the root of many of our political disagreements.
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I barely slept last night, despondent as I am over word that former Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards and the lovely Rielle Hunter have split up. Who could have imagine that a relationship that began with such promise could fail to survive?
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More romance in the news ...
In Sweden, a 52-year-old professor suspected his wife was playing hide-the-weenie with some other dude, so he cut off her lip ... and ate it. While telling her, "You'll never kiss anyone else again."
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Ever find yourself seated on a long-distance flight next to a person who talks incessantly? Could be worse.
Ask the lady who flew a red-eye overnight from Amsterdam to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The man next to her was quiet. Too quiet. For good reason. He was dead.
On a jammed flight, the crew had no place to put him, so she made the entire trip seated next to a corpse.
No word whether she snacked off his tray.
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Argus Hamilton --
"Pew Research reported Asian immigrants were the largest group coming into the U.S. last year for the first time ever, with most coming from India. It brings tears to the eyes of many Americans. After twenty years of endless waiting, technical support is a local call."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."